Half right, half wrong

Four-wheel drive vehicles in the mountains of Pakistan. Photo from the BBC.

Today's Sprawl and Crawl column in the Examiner hails Dan Tangherlini (ex-director of DC's Department of Transportation) for his use of transit to get to and from work as the "interim" director of WMATA, comparing him to the previous director, Richard White, who lives in Fairfax County and used a WMATA four-wheel drive vehicle to travel to and from work.

I can't link to the column because the Examiner seems to have botched a new design for their website and the search function appears to be worthless (this is the #1 feature, other than quality design and the provision of useful information, that website launches should never botch--they should wait to relaunch until the can be assured that the search function returns useful results), plus they took off the index tab for "Columnists."

Maybe they should redesign the DC Tourism website while they're at it...

Anyway, columnist Steve Eldridge writes:

"While White lived in Northern Virginia and could make a good argument for needing a four-wheel drive vehicle to get to work on days when the weather was less than ideal..."

I think not.

Tysons Corner, Virginia. Photo: Fairfax County Economic Development Authority.

Also see this piece, "Big and Bad" by Malcolm Gladwell on the behaviors and attitudes of people who buy SUVs.

Index Keywords: transit; car-culture